Improving CPAP use by patients with the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS)

HM Engleman, MR Wild - Sleep medicine reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
… Biomedical investigations of patientsCPAP use reveal … and CPAP use, and moderate
correlations between use and benefit… CPAP patients, adherence difinterventions for low CPAP use

CPAP therapy: outcomes and patient use

NJ Douglas, HM Engleman - Thorax, 1998 - thorax.bmj.com
… However, not all patients find this therapy ideal and many do not use it … CPAP therapy, the
data on patient use of CPAP therapy, the factors which limit CPAP use, and whether CPAP use

Long-term use of CPAP therapy for sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome

N Mcardle, G Devereux, H Heidarnejad… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
… airway pressure (CPAP) need to use CPAP long-… CPAP use and the factors influencing
long-term use. We examined determinants of objective CPAP use in 1,211 consecutive patients

Self-reported use of CPAP and benefits of CPAP therapy: a patient survey

HM Engleman, N Asgari-Jirhandeh, AL McLeod… - Chest, 1996 - Elsevier
… and patients use CPAP less than physicians recommend. To establish patients' perceptions
of benefit from CPAP and to identify determinants of CPAP use, 204 CPAP users completed …

Objective measurement of patterns of nasal CPAP use by patients with obstructive sleep apnea

NB Kribbs, AI Pack, LR Kline, PL Smith… - American Review of …, 2012 - atsjournals.org
… in OSAS patients treated with CPAP. We conclude that actual CPAP use by OSAS patients
falls … , and that patients' self-reports are rather poor estimates of actual use within and between …

Compliance with CPAP therapy in patients with the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome.

HM Engleman, SE Martin, NJ Douglas - Thorax, 1994 - thorax.bmj.com
… that CPAP usage is extremely variable between patients and that, on average, CPAP use
is less than five hours/night. Even with this level of compliance, however, these patients have …

CPAP compliance in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

O Yetkin, E Kunter, H Gunen - Sleep and Breathing, 2008 - Springer
patients use the CPAP device regularly (mean AHI 56.6 ± 27.7). Compliance to CPAP treatment
seemed to be poor in patientsCPAP treatment in patients with true indications, patients

CPAP: enhancing its use

SG Williams, CJ Lettieri, JW Dombrowsky - Current Respiratory Care …, 2012 - Springer
… thresholds of 4 h, 6 h, and 7.5 h for ESS, MSLT, and FOSQ scores respectively, help us
establish desired optimal nightly CPAP use for an individual patient [15]. The authors found that 4 …

Can intensive support improve continuous positive airway pressure use in patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome?

CJ Hoy, M Vennelle, RN Kingshott… - American Journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
patients might improve CPAP use and outcomes. We also examined the hypothesis that CPAP
use would be greater among patients … We randomized 80 consecutive, new patients with …

Early predictors of CPAP use for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

KE Lewis, L Seale, IE Bartle, AJ Watkins, P Ebden - Sleep, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… There is some clinical evidence that an average of 4 hours of CPAP use per night is necessary
to significantly improve outcomes,2 so we regarded a patient with an average use of at …